The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)

Directed by

Bruce Manning, Jean Renoir

Genre

drama film, comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young missionary smuggles Chinese war orphans into the United States by posing as the wife of a missing commodore. She hides the children in the commodore's mansion, but falls for his grandson and then the real commodore reappears.

lightheartedwhimsicalsentimentalwarmbittersweetromanticsuspensefulold-fashioned

What happens

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday is a 1943 American comedy drama film produced and directed by Bruce Manning and starring Deanna Durbin, Edmond O'Brien, and Barry Fitzgerald. Based on a story by Sonya Levien, the film is about a young idealistic missionary who smuggles a group of Chinese war orphans into the United States posing as the wife of a wealthy commodore who went missing after their ship was torpedoed and sunk. After safely sequestering the orphans in the commodore's family mansion, her plans start to unravel when she falls in love with commodore's grandson and the commodore himself turns up alive and well. Originally intended as Durbin's dramatic debut, Universal insisted on adding songs. The original director of the film was Jean Renoir, and though most of his completed footage was retained, final directorial credit was given to Bruce Manning, the film's producer. Frank Skinner and Hans J. Salter were nominated for an Oscar for Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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